Bishop Miege High School - Hart / Miegian Yearbook (Shawnee Mission, KS)

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Only 22 more days birthday The Miegian No. 4 Bi hop Miege High School Nov. 23, 1961 New Math Members In Mu Alpha Theta Eleven members of the Math Club re- ceived notice from Mu Alpha Theta, the National High School and Junior College Mathematics Club, that they have been ac- cepted as charter members. They are: San- dra Bauman, Julie Dold, Dave Fortin, Mike Grady, Shirley Johnson, Bill Kernion, Larry Kellerman, Richard Koch, Vicki Koch, Julie Ladesic, and David Staab. On November 29 during the club period, these students will formally receive their certificates of membership. Father Sullivan will make the presentation before the par- ents and friends who have been invited to the ceremony. Students being installed have completed the specified requirements necessary for membership: they must have maintained an overall B average, a B average in mathe- matics, they must be enrolled in a mathe- matics course this year, and be a member of the Miege Math Club. Accepted as charter members of the Mu Alpha Theta are left to right: Larry Kellerman, David Staab, Richard Koch, Dave Fortin, Mike Grady, Shirley Johnson, Vicki Koch, Julie Dold, Julie Ladesic, and Sandra Bauman. I Colorful senior Steve Hughes, has recent- l ly earned his place in Miege's hall of musi- cal immortals. Steve, janitor par excellence and Miege's - - foremost expert on jungle warfare, recent- M leg lan Contest Set ly thrilled hundreds of students with his The Miegian staff has drawn plans for its annual literary contest, which will last from the time present until December 20. All Miege students may submit entries to the contest, in any or all of its four aspects. An unlimited number of short stories, essays, poems and cartoons may be submitted. First and second prizes will be awarded for win- ning short stories and essays, while an ad- ditional third place will be given for the best poems and cartoons. General rules governing the contest are as follows: 1. Written entries must be typewritten and double-spaced. Cartoon entries should be submitted on 81 x 11 stiff white paper, and be drawn in' India ink. 2. Author's name and title tcaption, ifa cartoon is enteredl should be typed on an index card and fastened to the entry. The author's name must not appear on the ac- tual pages of his entry. 3. Poetry may be lyrical, blank or free verse. No epics, please. 4. Short stories may not exceed 4000 words in length, essays may not exceed 1500. 5. All entries must be submitted on or before December 20, 1961. First prizes ranging from five to ten dol- lars will be awarded. The total value of the ten prizes will be S56.00. The winning en- tries in all categories will be printed in a special semester literature and humor issue. Dan Furst his brilliant harmoni- ca improvisations. While record com- panies and the na- tion's leading con- servatories of music competed for his tal- ents, Steve calmly chose to pursue his course of studies under the status quo. All those in lunch period 5A look with anxious eyes toward November 24, when Steve, on the cigar-box banjo, will lead the Miege Tacky Senior chorus in their con- troversial rendition of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in D Major. Career Day Planned Career Day for the juniors and seniors will be held at 8 p.m. on November 30. Although March is the vocational month, Career Day will be early to give the juniors and seniors some ideas about various careers so that they will be better prepared for Col- lege Day, December 7. Sr. Marie Therese who is in charge of Career Day, is planning to get speakers who are experts in their fields. Each student will have a chance to at- tend two panels one in each of the two ses- sions. The first session for the boys will include the fields of medicine, business, law, and engineering. -121- The field of medicine is divided into two panels, Dr. C. Gripkey, M.D., will speak on the medical profession, and Dr. Bishop, will speak on psychiatry. Business will include three divisions: accounting, salesmanship, and public relations. Mr. J. Zieglemeyer will cover the field of law from criminal to cor- poration law. A representative from the Engineer Society will speak lon the many fields of engineering. The girls' first session will include medi- cine and nursing business, and stenography. Registered nurses, practical nurses, and technologists from St. Mary's and St. Mar- garet's Hospitals will speak on the nursing profession. Dr. Mary Sirridge will discuss the woman's view of medicine. The busi- ness field for the girls will be divided to in- clude the use of office machinery, work of buyers, and jobs of personnell workers. Journalism, vocational arts, and research are the subjects for the second session. Mr. Fitzsimmons, who has worked 18 years with the Kansas City Star, and Mr. Lasletic, who travelled with vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson, on his campaign tours, will speak on the profession of journalism. Construction business, drafting, and labor relations will come under the vocational arts topic. Experts from the medical and chemical research field will speak on their work. Mrs. Cameron, noted homemaker, will speak to the girls on ways to be successful in this vocation. Representatives will come from the Karl- sas and Missouri social and welfare offices to speak on their profession. Teachers, ele- mentary and secondary, and librarians will represent these respective careers. Larry Alley

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Late Score Stops Hayden Dave Bussjaeger sparked a remarkable comeback which, culminating in a late scor- ing drive of three yards, gave the Stags a victory over Hayden in Topeka. Reaching towards the magic number of seven straight victories, the Stags added number four to their string. The game started out bad as Miege fumbled to give up the ball on their own thirty-five. Three sweeps and Hayden had a first and goal inside the Miege ten. Then our stern defense stopped them cold and took over the ball on downs. Later Buss scored the first of three touchdowns and Rollheiser ran for the extra point. Hayden marched for a tally but the extra point try failed, and Miege led at the half 7-6. Late in the third quarter Hayden ran back a punt and made the extra point to take the lead. Then the vaunted Miege offense got into gear. Led by the running of Dave Bussjae- ger, and the passing of Gary Rollheiser, Miege racked up a touchdown about mid- way into the final stanza. Then the stage was set for the last act as Buss finally scor- ed his third of the evening to break the 13- 13 tie and give the Stags the victory. Once again the offense was spearheaded by Buss although Gary Rollheiser did a fine job filling for the injured Mike Murray at quarterback. The line play was the worst of the season as the backs were consistently having to make holes for themselves. There was a natural letdown after last week's up- set over Argentine and it almost cost us the game. Frosh Split First Six After the first six games on their seven game schedule, the frosh had an even 3-3 record. They showed good balance as the three losses were by close margins as were the three victories. No stars have as yet been detected on the squad although there is good reason to expect them to uphold the Miege tradition well in the years to come. Desperate Attempt Succeeds The Miege Stags evened their season's record at two wins and two losses, defeat- ing Maur Hill 7-0 at Ward Field. Until the last minute of the game it looked as if the Stags would have to settle for a scoreless tie and be lucky at that. Chiefly responsible for holding the Junior Ravens scoreless was an inspired Miege defense that was tough when it had to be. Four times Maur Hill penetrated the Miege twenty-yard line and twice they got inside the ten yard stripe but each time the Stags dug in and stopped them, three times on downs and once on a pass interception. That pass interception came with one minute left and gave the Stags the break that enabled them to pull out the victory. Mike Murray picked off a Maur Hill pass on the Miege fifteen-yard line and ran it into Maur Hill territory, on their forty- eight yard line. On the next play Murray hit halfback Gary Rollheiser with a perfect pass and Rollheiser took the ball to the nine-yard line before he was dragged down. Fullback Dave Bussjaeger took over then and smashed off-tackle, shaking off three tacklers as he crossed the goal line with only eleven seconds remaining in the game. Murray ran for the extra point giving the Stags their 7-O lead. Miege Mauls Mustangs Shaking off injuries and a large disadvan- tage in weight, Miege upset favored Argen- tine 14-6 at Argentine field for their third victory of the season against two losses. Al- though the Stags' victory spoiled Argen- tine's homecoming, few Miege fans seemed to have any regrets. Argentine started off the game with a bang as they marched fifty-five yards in ten plays for a touchdown the first time they got the ball. After fullback Elmer Sharp had almost single-handedly run the ball to the Miege nine-yard line, quarter- back Jim Doyle hit halfback Kenny Larson with a short pass and Larson carried the ball into the end zone. The Mustangs tried to run for the extra point but failed and Argentine led by a score of 6-0 at the end of the first quarter. The rest of the game was all Miege as the Stag defense held Argentine to only 39 yards total offense in the final three quart- ers. For the second straight game it was the passing combination of Mike Murray to Gary Rollheiser that gave the Stags a shot in the arm. In the second quarter, Murray hit Rollheiser with a fifty-nine yard scoring pass, and after Murray ran for the extra point, Miege led 7-6. The Stags added to their lead in the third quarter when Murray ran six yards for a touchdown capping a sixty-one yard drive setup when Felix Gotner pounced on an Ar- gentine fumble on the Miege thirty-nine yard line. The key play of the series came when, on a third down and ten situation, Mike Murray hit end Steve Murray with a twenty yard pass, putting the ball on the Argentine twenty-five. Dave Bussjaeger ran for the extra point giving the Stags a 14-6 lead. Miege controlled the ball the rest of the game and Argentine never again threatened. It was a big win for the Stags since the diminutive Miege team was considered an underdog to the big Argentine squad. Much of the credit for the victory should be give to Rollheiser who played despite a kidney injury and to Ted Dickey, a senior center who played a fine game. However, the game was definitely a team victory. Bill Agnew Reserves Sparkle When Needed During the last few games the team has been riddled with injuries but a strong bench has come through and therefore de- serves some praise. Gary Rollheiser played his first game at quarterback, and called a fine game against Hayden. Rich McGill filled in on defense in Murrays spot and drew praise for his fine effort on the outside plays, often coming up fast enough to throw the play for a loss. F. David Fortin filled in at end for Glenn Smith during the Argen- -190- tine game and almost earned himself a start- in berth with his heads up blocking. Pete Suess played a majority of the same game for Rollheiser who saw limited action due to an injured kidney. Suess is a sophomore who will see quite a bit of duty in the fu- ture. All in all the bench has come through in the pinch and these boys, who don't get the glory the starters do deserve a large amount of credit for their devotion and skill in filling in when needed.

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l c.-'f.l?,ffP? 5 Ziff!-F7 igifgif-3 f I .. u 3, f f c.J --f f- , I ' IU' I fr-A A -I S M if V X S gl Z f H 2- 5 ' Jay Walsh Why the Newspaper? The question arises about the limits and boundaries of a newspaper. Should there be both humor and intellectual stimulation in a news- paper? Should a newspaper be fundamentally based on the latter or the former. To the mental tyro these dichotomous questions would in- deed be difficult to answer, but to the intelligent individual there can be but one clear-cut answer. Any newspaper, regardless of size or num- ber of publications, cannot survive on humor and especially simple humor. Intellectual stimulation is the soul, the blood stream of a news- paper. It would be nothing less than an insult to the reader if every article and feature story had to have a twist of humor in order to arouse reading interest. It would dictate literary ignorance. However, on the other hand it would be a mistake to assume that humor is completely taboo for newspapers. On the contrary, humor and especially satire, can play a big part in the creating of a good newspaper. But humor must be scrupulously written. It must be com- prehensible for a majority of readers and it must never be an inter- pretation of private jokes between the author and his group of hum- orists. A recent argument that has arisen about the Miegian is that big events such as the homecoming are not given enough attention. One must take into consideration though that events such as the home- coming will be allotted a good deal of space in the yearbookg there- fore to play it up twice would be entirely unnecessary. A final argument is that most newspapers including school publi- cations are published for the benefit of the intellegensia. However, this argument hardly hold water for newspapers are printed at the reading level of an eleven year old and for one to consider them too intellectual .... well .... how do you square up? Rodney Vickery batters to the Edilar Dear Editor: In the previous issue of the Miegian, an editorial labeled the John Birch Society, as a frightening menace to our country. In my opin- ion this statement is somewhat exaggerated because I believe that this ultraconservative society will soon die out. It appears to be a fanatical society, one wanting to be heard. Its leader, Robert Welch, is getting the publicity that he seeks when he labels former President Eisen- hower, President Kennedy, and the Supreme Court Justices as Com- munist stooges. The Society presently does not advocate the violent overthrow of the government as does communism, and it does have some merit by awakening in us the dangers of Communism. Michael Conry Dear Editor: I believe that the editorial in the November 3 issue of the Miegian on the John Birch Society gave a good description of this menace to our country. Here is one point on which I disagree. To say that this society has a noble purpose, because it is supposedly against Commu- nism and that many of its members are sincere and patriotic is a mis- conception. In my opinion this group is a collection of childish people, who slander and ridicule those who go against them. They are self- centered people who clearly resemble Hitler and his idea of a super- race and the survival of the fittest. Any people who favor keeping the negro in his 'tplace as a second class citizen, abolishing the United Nations and letting the poor and underprivileged peoples and coun- tries wallow in their misery are not patriotic and sincere in their ef- forts to make this a country of democracy and equality. If in truth, they are attempting to root out the Communist element in this country, they would go about it in a much different way. The slandering and ridiculing of our. nation's leaders in politics, business and religion is the best way to weaken this country and make it sus- ceptible to the most dread disease, Communism. Informing and instructing the people in the evils of Communism is a much better method of stopping and retarding the spread and growth of Communism in this country. The John Birch Society is as great a force working for the destruc- tion of the democratic foundation of this country as Communism. David Kierst Dear Editor: After reading the last issue of our school paper, one question comes to mind: Question: Why is the Miegian like one of my sister's cakes? Answer: They both have lots of ingredients, very little seasoning, and they come out flat. Take, for instance, the November 3 issue of the Miegian. The big news was the Homecoming and the Queen twowj. There was one pic- ture of the Queen and a short column about Homecoming. A picture of the float would look a lot better than the picture of the backs of four guys on the KU campus fpage 4--if they were numberedl. Thoughts from Sandburg could be cut down to the two bold type lines that were Sandburg's thoughts, and the rest of the space used to tell the statistics about the float for the Queenll. Another thing, too: Why not put pictures and stories together? It makes it easier that way. If you are short of space, you could reduce the type size on pages 2 and 3 to the same size as the rest of the paper and have room for T. Dickey's column--complete. The block at the bottom of page 1 announcing that it is 43 days to Beethoven's birthday is a real gem of humor. A gem is something that's rare--and so is the humor in the Miegian. The little gem about Beethoven is the only chunk of humor in the paper. These observations are not meant to suggest that I want to be an editor--only to present a reader's views. After all, if you had to be a horse to judge a horse show, who would holler, The Winnah! John Gaines Editor's Comment: I should like to refer reader Gaines to this issue's editorial page, on which he will find the goals and purposes of a newspaper. For those who are in search of humor, we have a special literature and humor issue coming up in January. Mr. Dickey has not been expunged from the staff, but due to his crowded schedule could not grace our last is- sue with his abundant wit. . . rirmraif ' lj, 1 i A' THE MIEGIAN ling Published every three weeks by the students 'J' nic . of Bishop Miege High schoolg Mission, Kansas. :itil-T-,eff Staff o-editors ........ ....... ........ .I ed Kee, Dan Furst Exchange Editor .... ........ M ary Kay Amoneno News Editors .... .... La rry Alley, Dave Fortin Feature Editor .... ,............... D on Bollard Sports Editor ..... ................ J ohn Wheeler Photographers .... ...... ...... B i ll Humphrey, Dave Proffitt Editorial staff ....,............ . . .Susan Roche, Rodney Vickery Typists .... Deanna Brown, Pam Blanchard. Dorothy Snyder, Theresa Ferlienlloff, Connie Armenta. Reporters .... Kathy Connor, Peggy Halloran, Kathy Walker. Kathy Johnson. Shirley Johnson, Dave Crawley. Mary Knob, Patrice Krampff, Vicki l-Erickson, Mary Lu Doll. Paul Keenan. Kay Mork, Jackie Roehrig, Julie llold, Vicki Koch, Julie Ladeaic, Carol MeAvoy, Larry Rouse, Elaine Hunter. Bill Ag- new. 122 -